Welcome back WordPress Press This bookmarklet! I missed you.

A few days ago, the folk over at Automattic released WordPress 2.6. This release was so ahead of time (apparently it was released a month early) that I feel like it snuck up on me.

First of all, kudos to all involved for getting out a new release ahead of time. And secondly, they’ve done a great job adding some really useful features and security fixes to this version. But the apple of my eye is the reinstatement of the Press This bookmarklet.

I know they’ve added all sorts of cool features like post revisions for multi-author blogs, easy insertion of image captions, and more user-friendly management of plugins; but I really liked the Press This bookmarklet, and kind of mourned its loss when it was removed from WordPress 2.5. The Press This bookmarklet makes it much easier to post about other web content on your own blog, in a way that’s similar to the Tumblr bookmarklet. Aaron Brazell describes the Press This bookmarklet as follows:

…it allows the user to be on any website, click the bookmarklet and get a miniaturized version of WordPress admin with options to snip text, photos from the page, quotes or video embeds.

I still haven’t upgraded (see below to find out why), so I wonder if the Link This bookmarklet has been reinstated too…

More about WordPress 2.6

Miriam is the friendly CEO of illuminea, a WordPress design and development agency, and Strattic, a static publishing platform for Open Source CMSs. Miriam is a huge fan of WordPress and has been using it for over ten years. In addition, Miriam has organized the past five local Israeli WordCamp conferences.

I don’t think there is an issue with content theft really. If I wanted to steal content, I would just install WP-O-Matic and have the content theft done automatically for me.

In other news, I can’t use the “Press This” bookmarklet because on a dodgy implementation of mod_security on my host.

About WPGarage

This is where Rebecca and Miriam from illuminea (and sometimes others) document things they've learned about WordPress. Even after nine years in the field, we're always learning new things about WordPress. Hope this helps you too.